Things We Saw Today: Even More Iconic Zoom Backgrounds to Make a Splash at Your Next Meeting

Judging by the popularity of last week’s Zoom backgrounds compilation post, many are in search of the perfect backdrop for our new video call-oriented lives. Since another week has come and gone, you may be looking to start afresh and dazzle unwitting coworkers with something new for next time. Luckily, users on Twitter continue to post their ingenious background picture ideas for the common good.

A note about Zoom backgrounds: they don’t work for all of us! Depending on your computer and processer—and lack of green screen—you may upload a virtual background only to find that it has subsumed your entire face and body and turned you into a nightmarish acid trip of a person. This can be fun for friendly Zoom gatherings, but keep in mind some work conference Zooms might take issue with you rendered into an outer space nebula.

Other folks are getting fancy and setting up dedicated lighting and green screens behind them to better ground effective backgrounds, and in a pinch, a regular plain white sheet can help, too. (If you are truly dedicated to perfecting your background look, there are portable green screens you can buy, from simple $12.99 backdrops to fancy $65 affairs that attach to the back of your desk chair so no set-up is needed, and everything in-between.)

Onward!

Twitter user @BeeShellll created a thread that now has close to 300k likes and 50k retweets to collect some of the most creative and iconic backgrounds. It begins with several that will go down in history books as the classics of our coronavirus era:

Meanwhile, Ivanka Trump has so much free time and so few worries that she’s apparently learning to play the guitar and reading The Odyssey! I will not compare her to any of the lady-monsters that Odysseus encounters on his voyage because they were awesome. (via Celebitchy)

Actually related to Ivanka:

Here’s Jared Kushner going for the world record of most meaningless corporate buzzwords used in a single one-minute video clip pic.twitter.com/Vy1QJEhLQa

—The Mary Sue has a strict comment policy that forbids, but is not limited to, personal insults toward anyone, hate speech, and trolling. If you purchase something through our links, The Mary Sue may earn an affiliate commission.—